The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-04-02
SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.

hilcu az houu1 hlSBS, Ala, lew udyS !
ago, while resisting arrest. He had open
ly deiied the officers and swore he would !
kill or be killed before he woul d surren-
der. His two step-sons were wounded.
The Sidney family was a terror to the
community.
Moses Miller, colored man living in
Lynchburg Va, choked his wife to death /
q few nights ago, and then cut his own
throat. Miller may possibly recover.
Jealousy is assigned as the cause of the
murder.
The Governor Of Louisiana has of cred
reward for the conviction of the persons
implicated in outrages recently commit.
ted in the parish of West Carroll against
Polish Jews, with the view of driving
them out of the community.
Mingo Jones, negro, was tried recently
at Memphis, Tenn, for the murder of the
JUST family on the Pigeon ROost road aud
was declared not guilty. AS Jones has
sentence Of ninety-nine years in the peni-
tertiary for the poisoning of a woman
over him, his acquittal is of little moment
TO him.
1t is stated that the widow Of President
Polk keeps all her husbands private ei-
fects in his old office at Nashville, Tenn,
quite undisturbed.
Julia barrow, colored, one hundred and
eight years old, supposed to be the oldest
woman in the State, died recently at
Gloversvile, KY She was born in Mont
gomery County in 1919 and was a slave on
the Colonel SammQns farm. She remained
there until sold to her late husband at the
age of sixteen for $3.50 She was the
mother of seventeen children, three Of
whom survive her She leaves considera-
BILE property.
The North Carolina Legislature at its
recent session, passed an act which is a
copy of the New York law, prohibiting the
publication Of lottery advertisements in
North Carolina. The penalty is severe,
and the publisher of a newspaper is in.
dctable in any county where it circulates
If it contains such an advertisement. The
first paper to be indicted is the Whining
ton Star
John b. Simmons, a highly respected
merchant doing bus ness a short distance
from Russellville, KY, was murdered by
unknown parties few nights ago, and
the money in the store and on his person,
only small amount, was taken. The
most intense excitement prevailed in the
neighborhood of tile tragedy.
A party of st. Louis capitalists and
others having desire to see the booms
and boOmlets in process of development
in the South, have recently been doing
the centers of attraction in Tennessee and
Alabama.
Arthur J. Durbn, one of the oldest and
best known Catholic priests in the West,
died at Shelbyville, KY, few days ago,
from the Cathedral in Louisville.
OF the one hundred soldiers who went
from Sullivan County, Tenn, to take part
| in the Mexican war twelve are living.
A half million dollar hotel is among the
contemplated Improvements at Birming
ham, Ala, this spring
Negotiations are in progress with Gin
cinnati firm to establish large rolling
mill at Decatur, Ala.
Iron and coal have been discovered at
Mansfield, La, aud the inhabitants of the
place are busily working up a boom look
ing to the development of their burie
treasures.
| An immense meat curing establishment
is to be put up at Colorado City, Tex,
using new chemical process, recently
! discovered which preserves dressed
meats better and cheaper than by rcfrig
Grafton.
Michael Flaherty, one of the crew ofthe
snag- boat John r. Meigs. now operating
in the Tallahatchie river was drowned a
! few days ago by the upsetting of skiffin
which he was crossing the river with two
other men. Flaherty was from ST. Louis,
and was an old s,eamboatman.
Hon. John Sherman received a deputa
tion of colored men at the Metropolitan
Hotel, Birmingham, Ala, during his stay
in that city recently, who presented hin
with an address highly fiattering and
complimentary to the Ohio statesman, tC
which Mr.. Sherman made brief but
cordial response.
The largest single sale of cotton or
record was made at Galveston. Tex, {
few days ago. j. p. Willis Il Bro. sole
$500 bales, stored in that city, to Messrs
Kaufman & Runge for an amount APP
proximatny $4,000
Jerucia, a Mexican woman, twenty
years of age, while sitting alone in from
of fire at her home near San Antonio
Tex, a few evening since, fell, in AT
epileptiu fit into the burning embers, ant
when rescued by passing nelghbor wa
found TO be so badly burned that her re
covery was impossible.
The Female seminary at Franklin, Ky.
was destroyed by fire a few days ago
Loss, $4,000; no insurance
A large cotton factory is to be erecte
at Columbus, Miss, on the site Of the old
Jail in that city which was recently pur
chased by the Tombigbee Cotton Factory
Company. A new and improved Jail is tC
be erected at once upon property secured
by the county for that purpose.
Fire a few nights ago DESTROYED fou
stores on Dryades street, New Orleans
The loss is estimated at $4,000; fully in
sured. The following were burned out
j. T. McKenna, grocery; Boyland''
crockery store; Gimble's shoe store anC
an adjoining furnit ure store.
James Thomas, Sr., father Of John "
Thomas, president of the Nashville, Chat
tanooga q s.. Louis railway, died a few
days ago, aged eighty-fi five years. The de
ceased was well known and highly re
spected.
The trial of Ike Vincent, the defaultinI
captured ex-State Treasurer Of Alabama